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Green Hainline Biosketch
Virginia Dieterle :
Tuesday,
December08, 1998
1894 - Green Hainline (portrait). On section 15, Hittle Township,
Tazewell County, lies a fine farm of one hundred
and forty acres of fertile land, one of the most pleasant homesteads in
the county. The owner, Mr. Hainline has
used great care and judgment in the cultivation of the soil and has
introduced the improvements of a first-class
farm. // Our subject was born in Boone County, Ky., March 16, 1816, and
is a son of Henry and Nancy (Darnell)
Hainline. His paternal grandparents were George and Hannah Hainline,
the former of whom came from Germany
when a lad of sixteen years in company with two elder brothers. They
landed in South Carolina, where the
grandfather at once began working on a farm. A few months later the
Revolutionary War broke out and the man
for whom he was working gave him a horse, saddle and other equipmentin
order that he might join the British
army. In the first battle in whichhe participated his horse was killed
and he immediately joined the Continental
army, with which he fought until the close of the seven years of war.
he then returned to his former employer,
who again gave him work. He followed thetrade of a wagon-maker until
his marriage, which event took place in
South Carolina. Afterward he turned his attention to farm pursuits and
moved to Kentucky, where the father of
our subject was born. The later years of his life were spent in
Illinois at the home of Henry Hainline, and he died
at the age of about ninety years. // The father of our subject was born
in the Blue GrassState, where he received
a very limited education. After his marriage with Miss Darnell he
engaged in farming there until 1827, when he
came with his wife and nine children to this state, locating in
Tazewell County. At the time of his settlement here
Indians and wild animals were the principal inhabitantsand there were
only five families in Hittle Township,
where he purchased a quarter-section of land. Afterward he entered the
Black Hawk War, and receiveda pay for
his services a land grant, which he used in purchasing other property
in this township. At his decease he was
the owner of a valuable estate comprising three hundred acres. // To
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hainline were born
twelve children, one of whom died when quite young, the others bear the
respective names of Polly (now
deceased), Caleb, Green, Massy, George (deceased), Sylvester, Hannah
S., Lorenzo, Alvira (deceased), Amanda
and Henry. The parentsere active members of the Christian Church, and
in politics the father was astanch
Whig. // When they located in this township their children had for
playmates Indian boys, with whom they often
ran races and played various kindsof games. Green, of this sketch,
received his education in the common
schools of Tazewell County, and began when very young to earn his own
way by working in the woods. He was
only eleven years of age when with another brother he made four
thousand rails during one winter. // Two years
after attaining hismajority Mr. Hainline married miss Esther, daughter
of Solomon and Polly Allen. To them were
born six children, of whom two died when quite young. Nancy, Mrs.
Valentine Summers, is now deceased. The
other children are: Solomon A.,Obed H. and Henry. Mrs. Esther Hainline
departed this life about sixteen years
ago. Our subject afterward married Mrs. Jerusha Smith, who died a few
years later, and his next wife was Miss
Mary Wright. His present wife was Mrs. Sallie Ritter, the daughter of
Joseph Lancaster. // After his first marriage
our subject entered forty acres of land from the Government and
immediately began its improvement. He added
to it from time to time and now has one hundred and forty acres,
besides which he has given valuable property
to his children. Many years ago Pekin and Peoria were the tradin
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